“In the high north, it is so different from, I don’t know, Massachusetts. It takes decades for moss to heal. The sand, when you think it’s just a desert. It’s a tundra. It’s very slow to heal. This is forever, this damage,” Páll explains. He still can’t truly wrap his head around the damage.

Nooooo. :-(

That makes me think of the aftermath of a forest fire, how long it takes for the plants to regrow back. It’s infuriating how big of an impact one idiot can make.